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The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you might think that there might be very little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In reality, it seems to be working the opposite way, with the critical market circumstances creating a greater eagerness to wager, to try and discover a quick win, a way from the crisis.

For nearly all of the locals living on the meager local earnings, there are 2 popular forms of wagering, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lottery where the probabilities of winning are surprisingly small, but then the jackpots are also very big. It’s been said by economists who study the situation that the majority do not purchase a ticket with a real assumption of hitting. Zimbet is based on either the domestic or the English soccer leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future matches.

Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, cater to the exceedingly rich of the society and sightseers. Until recently, there was a incredibly substantial vacationing industry, based on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and connected violence have carved into this trade.

Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which offer gaming tables, slots and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer slot machines and tables.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the above talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Given that the economy has contracted by more than 40% in recent years and with the associated deprivation and bloodshed that has resulted, it is not well-known how well the sightseeing business which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will survive until conditions improve is simply not known.